Restaking

Restaking means taking an asset that’s already staked — or the liquid staking token representing it — and committing it again to secure additional protocols or services, on top of the base network staking it’s already doing. In exchange, restakers can earn additional rewards from whatever they’re securing, layered on top of ordinary staking yield.

The tradeoff is that restaking generally means taking on the slashing or loss conditions of every additional protocol you’re securing, not just the base network. A bug or bad actor in any one of the restaked services can, depending on the design, put the restaked collateral at risk — the additional yield compensates for additional, and compounding, risk.

If you’re considering a restaking product involving a Solana LST, read our LST depeg risk guide and DeFi risk guide first — restaking concentrates several risk types that are each individually worth understanding on their own.